Poems for life and love
Today is National Poetry Day. Here are two poems by the wonderful Wendy Cope who writes with poignant humour – and brevity – about life and love. The Orange At lunchtime I bought a huge orangeThe size of it made…
Today is National Poetry Day. Here are two poems by the wonderful Wendy Cope who writes with poignant humour – and brevity – about life and love. The Orange At lunchtime I bought a huge orangeThe size of it made…
Emotions are running high in public life this week. MPs have been shouting at each other over the floor of the House of Commons, using words like ‘cowardly’, ‘disgrace’ and ‘horror’. And world leaders at the United Nations were excoriated…
There are many ways to define and describe depression. Fighting an invisible enemy, living with a ‘black-dog’, walking through thick fog, wearing a lead suit, trapped with a critical gremlin. What would your word or image be? I relate to…
I’ve been thinking about Greta Thunberg over the summer. The Swedish teenager and climate campaigner has been travelling by boat across the Atlantic to the US to attend a climate conference. I thought about this particularly hard as I sat…
As we take our summer break we thought we’d highlight some great sources of online help and inspiration for your mental health. WEBSITE: welldoing.org has a directory of therapists and also lots of accessible articles about all aspects of therapy. Recent…